WEALTH OF IDEAS

Joanne Hillhouse, author who has been featured in Munyori Literary Journal , has announce the April 17, 2012 release of he new novel Oh Gad !  The story begins with this line: Nikki didn’t know how long the phone had been ringing before she heard it. What happens when she picks up that phone sends her home to Antigua and sets her on a rocky path that will change her entire life. Joanne HIllhouse says, "I hope you’ll consider taking that journey with her." Oh Gad! is published by Strebor/Atria/Simon & Schuster It is also available through Amazon and other booksellers The author invites you to visit her online pages: http://www.jhohadli.com and http://www.facebook.com/JoanneCHillhouse Amazon Book Description Publication Date: April 17, 2012 A stirring novel about a woman facing cross-cultural odds and redefining everything she understands about her family, herself, and the country she’s never really been a...

I am excited about the arrival in stores of this much-awaited award winner, "Running the Rift" by  Naomi Benaron.  Here is some information from Amazon: Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: No wonder Barbara Kingsolver awarded her 2010 Bellwether Prize, given biennially to an unpublished novel that confronts social issues, to Naomi Benaron's Running the Rift . In her coming-of-age story of young Tutsi Jean Patrick Nkuba, whose extraordinary gift for distance running lands him on the path to become his country's first medalist in track, one of history's most inconceivable chapters--the Rwandan genocide--becomes intensely personal. Out of a childhood marked by loss and overshadowed by mounting Hutu-Tutsi tensions, Jean Patrick draws the strength for grueling Olympic training and the courage to run his life's most crucial race--to save himself and his family. A vividly told tale with a memorable champion at its heart. --Mari Malcolm ...